Давид у одори Хорацијевој: класицистички препев избора из псалама Лукијана Мушицког
David in Horace’s Attire: The Classicising Paraphrases of the Selected Psalms by Lukijan Mušicki

Summary/Abstract: Among the otherwise understudied literary opus of Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1834) one of the least examined segments are his Sacred Odes (Odi duchovniya) – verse paraphrases of six psalms (1, 3, 7, 14, 81, 130 – following the Septuagint numbering) in the hybrid Church Slavonic language and in the metre of Horace’s Epodes (the first Pythiambic system) and Carmina (the Alcaic stanza, the third Asclepiad stanza). Mušicki began this first major biblical paraphrase in Serbian verse literature in 1812 and published four of them in 1822. Through this endeavor, Mušicki aligns himself – primarily by means of versification – with the Western tradition of modern, above all Neo-Latin, paraphrases of the Psalter and, more distantly, with ancient Christian poetry. Conversely, the linguistically and confessionally closer Russian tradition of rendering the Psalms in verse, made a considerable impact on both the textual and poetological aspects of the Sacred Odes. By addressing these diverse issues, this study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Lukijan Mušicki’s psalm paraphrases, with particular attention to the literary-theoretical and poetological foundations of the sacred ode as a subgenre of the neo-classical ode, and to their unique realisation in Mušicki’s work as a synthesis of the Horatian ode’s form and the content derived from thematically selected psalmic textual models. Drawing upon examination of the manuscripts, the study further offers a more nuanced account of the context and motives underlying the composition of these odes, considering the author’s general reluctance towards religious discourse. Above all, however, it presents a critical edition of the Sacred Odes, since the only complete edition published to date (posthumously, in 1844) exhibits numerous textual and editorial shortcomings.

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